UC team uses design to combat opioid crisis
January 22, 2019
Like many cities across the country, Cincinnati has been rocked by the opioid epidemic, with an ever-fluctuating range of 50 to 80 overdoses per week across the Tristate. Many of those victims are revived by the overdose reversal medication, naloxone, which has proven to be a crucial lifesaving tool during this crisis. Claudia Rebola, graduate studies coordinator in UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), designed a device to make naloxone more accessible to those in need, bringing a model she helped create first in Providence, Rhode Island, to spaces in Cincinnati that are most at risk.
Passing the torch after 20 years leading the UC Cystic Fibrosis Program
January 23, 2019
After leading the UC Cystic Fibrosis Program for 20 years, Patricia Joseph, MD is turning over the reins to Veronica Indihar, MD. The two have been co-directors of the program for the last two years.